Publications
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Journal Article
Social protection amid a crisis: New evidence from South Africa’s Older Person’s Grant
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Working Paper
Chinese artificial intelligence in Africa: Digital colonisation or liberalisation?
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Book Chapter
Government response to ultra-processed and sugar beverages industries in developing nations: The need to build coalitions across policy sectors
Datasets
Dataset
ASTI South Africa Database
Dataset
A 2009 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) Database for South Africa
Dataset
South Africa Limpopo Basin Climate Change Adaptation Dataset
Blogs
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Sudan food emergency: Unpacking the scale of the disaster and the actions needed
More than 20 million face acute food insecurity.
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World Food Safety Day 2024: Empowering consumers and small businesses with information
Targeting interventions to benefit public health.
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Responding to Malawi’s impending food crisis
Food imports can make up for shortages if quick action is taken.
Events
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Improving Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Nutrition in Nigeria: Policies and Actions
Despite significant progress in addressing hunger and undernutrition in the early 2000s, malnutrition, in all its forms, remains a major challenge in all regions of the world. Unhealthy diets remain the primary drivers of many forms of malnutrition, including undernutrition, overweight and obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and diet-related noncommunicable diseases. Today, the number of people who […]
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Implications of El Niño 2023/24 for Africa South of the Sahara
Virtual Event: November 29, 2023 at 7:30am-9:00am EST. IFPRI in collaboration with USAID FEWS NET and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is hosting a presentation on the potential impact of the upcoming El Niño on the global agrifood system, with special emphasis on low-income countries in Africa South of the Sahara. The event will be organized around four short talks.
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Africa’s Food Systems Forum (AGRF) 2023 Summit
Event: September 5, 2023 – 3:00 AM to September 8, 2023 – 7:30 AM EDT. IFPRI is participating in Africa’s Food Systems Forum (AGRF) 2023 Summit.
News
Unpacking the 2023 Africa agriculture assessment report (CNBC Africa)
CNBC Africa interviewed John Ulimwengu, IFPRI Senior Research Fellow and the technical editor and lead researcher of the Africa Agriculture Status Report 2023, launched on September 6 at the Africa Food Systems Forum (AGRF). . The Report titled “Empowering Africa’s Food Systems for the Future” highlights the ways in which Africa is uniquely positioned to redefine its future and […]
India’s food system is under strain, and farmers are paying the price (Bloomberg)
“India’s production [of rice] has surged over the past decade, accounting for some 40% of global shipments before the latest limits, broadly equivalent to the next four exporters combined. Now curbs have tempered costs at home, but they’ve hurt vulnerable importing nations, pushing the global price to a 15-year high and raising the possibility of […]
India is pushing the world toward another rice crisis (Bloomberg)
“With duties, export bans, and other restrictions, New Delhi is harming the same developing nations it claims to want to lead,” writes Mihir Sharma, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and a senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. Sharma adds, “Three calamities have caused grain supplies to dry up: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine […]
Projects
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Supporting ReSAKSS and CAADP
From 2006 to 2020, IFPRI facilitated the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) to support the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development……
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Strengthening CAADP Biennial Review (BR)
The Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) Biennial Review (BR) is a powerful instrument for triggering policy actions for agricultural transformation in Africa. It is……